This book follows our family’s year-long travel journey during the height of the global COVID pandemic. In July 2020, we collectively decided to reject the status quo and created the space to completely re-imagine our lives. We sold our home in Virginia along with most of our belongings and hit the road in search of more joy, peace, health and well-being. Over the next 12 months, we traveled over 32,000 km (20,000 miles), visited 26 U.S. states, 11 National Parks, five countries, spent three months living on a beach in Mexico and four months living on a sailboat in French Polynesia. We finished our journey with an intrepid, 7,000-kilometer (4,350-mile) crossing of the South Pacific Ocean from Bora Bora to our new home in Brisbane, Australia. We emerged with more clarity and joy than we could ever have anticipated.

The purpose of this book is to inspire parents, busy professionals, young people, and anyone seeking more from their lives, to re-evaluate how they live and how they view their place in the world in order to create more healthy, fulfilled, and happy lives.

The 520-page book includes over 1,750 full-color images. This creates a  visually compelling, easily-digestible reading experience that can be described as an extension of an Instagram or Facebook post. Furthermore, most chapters open with a QR code that takes you to a website containing relevant videos and photos that not only help immerse you into the story, but also evoke a sense of inspiration. This unique approach creates an enhanced, multidimensional reading experience. 

Crossing the South Pacific: Sailing Tahiti to Australia